TEDx Vienna

After having had the opportunity to attend TEDx Vienna, and after watching a lot of TED videos, I decided that an investigation of the style of TED talks and their differences to ordinary talks would be a nice topic for a talk at (as far as I know) continental Europe’s first ScienceBarCamp in Vienna.

The slides

Since I tried to implement some of the characteristics of a TED talk, the slides were designed to support the talk visually, but do not reflect its contents well. If you’d like to know more about the talk, please leave a comment below or contact me.

I would also like to emphasize the following: this is not a talk on „how to make a good PowerPoint presentation“. First of all, there’s more to a talk than just the set of slides. (Yes, it could have been more aptly named „…for Giving Glorious Talks“.) Also, there are many different ways to give a good talk, but no single one is the ultimate approach for every kind of audience. This is a reflection on TEDs approach. Think about your audience.